x, 430 pages : 24 cm

"In these original essays on long-term patterns of everyday life in pre-revolutionary, Soviet, and contemporary Russia, distinguished scholars survey the cultural practices, power relations, and behaviors that characterized daily existence for Russians through the post-Soviet present. Microanalyses and transnational perspectives shed new light on the formation and elaboration of gender, ethnicity, class, nationalism, and subjectivity. Changes in consumption and communication patterns, the restructuring of familial and social relations, systems of cultural meanings, and evolving practices in the home, at the workplace, and at sites of leisure are among the topics explored"--

Papers from an interdisciplinary workshop entitled "Everyday Life in Russia and the Soviet Union," held in May 2010 on Indiana University's Bloomington campus

Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-414) and index

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